Excerpt from The Geological Magazine, or Monthly Journal of Geology, 1908, Vol. 5: With Which Is Incorporated "the Geologist," Nos. 523 to 534; Decade V Besides the question of water-supply and the Tertiary and Chalk formations, in which Prestwich was from an early period the great authority, and to which from that time forward John Evans also devoted most earnest attention, they had a common interest in collecting and studying flint implements from the gravels and other superficial deposits, in which, following the late Joshua Trimmer, Prestwich undertook the task of classifying and synchronising the Strata, named by him 'quaternary, ' as Evans did with regard to the flint implements contained in them, and Falconer in respect to their associated mammalian remains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.